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Article #390Re: Battery care
From: Al Klein
Date: Sun, 09 Jan 2000 00:00
Date: Sun, 09 Jan 2000 00:00
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On Sun, 09 Jan 2000 11:01:51 +1000, Matthew McDonald <matthew@matthewmcdonald.com> wrote: >On Sat, 08 Jan 2000 16:45:13 -0700, James Weber <mattheww@uswest.net> >wrote: >>You need to be careful discharging NiCd's. The phones will shut off >>when one of the cells is completely flat. If you go beyond that, you >>start reverse charging the fully discharged cells, and that does >>destroys batteries with truly amazing speed. >Ahh no. The phone will shut off when a certain voltage level is >reached. The battery never get's even remotely close to being really >flat. Most of the rest of Weber's post is along the same lines - it sounds good, but it's mostly bunk. It sounds as if his "knowledge" comes from reading a few incorrect magazine articles. -- Al - aklein at villagenet dot com
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 10ae63,e490f462148e7ea4 X-Google-Attributes: gid10ae63,public X-Google-Thread: fb718,e490f462148e7ea4 X-Google-Attributes: gidfb718,public X-Google-Thread: f461e,e490f462148e7ea4 X-Google-Attributes: gidf461e,public From: nxyrva@ivyyntrarg.pbz (Al Klein) Subject: Re: Battery care Date: 2000/01/09 Message-ID: <tnuh7s0mqgvkeui69033uobr1o8aekautq@4ax.com> X-Deja-AN: 570486187 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit References: <854rbd$8nl$1@news1.mpx.com.au> <aOrd4.9978$c6.469133@news.chello.at> <b5jd7s0c4o83375p00hris9cn06vmj8upj@4ax.com> <2_Sd4.1383$15.5605@news> <38775bf5$0$13299@motown.iinet.net.au> <8581b1$h8s$1@dinkel.civ.utwente.nl> <387791de$0$13294@motown.iinet.net.au> <8Ml3OOJ4+Pom4a2ypoCSNAyQbiaa@4ax.com> <jdnf7ske596rgmgt1n5rrubtem30vdb1lf@4ax.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: 9 Jan 2000 16:26:04 -0500, dialup-147-18.villagenet.com Organization: DALnet MIME-Version: 1.0 Reply-To: nxyrva@ivyyntrarg.pbz Newsgroups: alt.cellular.ericsson,alt.cellular.gsm,aus.comms.mobile